Hope the weekend is going well.
I started putting down the joists. I'm aligning them with the highest joist.
Turns out that the highest joist, which is the very first one, nailed to the studs, is quite higher than the rest.
You can see that the new joist starts very close to the ceiling below, and towards the middle it's already separated by +3 inches. But the new joists are also much higher than the existing joists.
Looks like the house is somewhat sloped to the left and backwards - the highest point is the front of the house.
I did a quick sanity check and where the new floor and existing floor meet, there will be some height gap.
Part of me thinks that I should've leveled the new joists below that highest joist, so the floor would slope just a little bit around that first bay, and then would be level and less of a height difference from the existing floor.
Any thoughts?